Re: Archival quality DVD burners

["Chris Edwards" chris2edwards]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Rob Danielson wrote:

| ~4 years ago I found several web sites with tests of burners with 
| several criteria measured. There were significant differences between 
| burners.

Right - and good luck buying a 4-year old burner model :-)

Personally I have little faith in recordable DVDs in the long-term.  
Plenty disks I wrote a few years ago are no longer readable :-(

One thing I've been told, by an ex-BBC person, is that the "rewritable" 
DVD media may actually be better, because the chemistry involved is 
different, and lasts longer.

But as has already been said, the only way to be sure is to periodically 
copy stuff to fresh media.  Hence I now keep everything on live hard 
disks.  Amongst other advantages, when the time comes, copying stuff will 
simply involve a single "drag'n'drop" type operation on my computer, which 
should be MUCH easier than copying loads of DVDs one by one...